Star Trek hot take (or shit take) Star Trek ship designers need to take time into consideration. There is no reason ships in the 23rd and 21st centuries should still share the same design language. Worse, all cultures sharing the same dual nacelle design feels off. Star Trek hot take (or shit take) Star Trek ship designers need to take time into consideration. There is no reason ships in the 23rd and 21st centuries should still share the same design language. Worse, all cultures sharing the same dual nacelle design feels off.

I think the dual nacelle as a universal constant is interesting because it shows the physics of warp travel are a constant and work the same for everyone. Just as a Chinese plane, or hot balloon, etc, will necessarily share design necessities with a french one because physics laws are what they are.

In James White's Sector General universe, *all* starships have dual hyperdrive motors. No matter which species invented them.

"Form follows function."